{"id":52200,"date":"2023-12-14T18:19:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=52200"},"modified":"2023-12-14T18:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T17:19:24","slug":"discover-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/discover-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"The will is a very mysterious human faculty. Three thousand years of history in philosophy and psychology show that it was an unknown phenomenon for a long time.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEven at the height of Greek culture, there was no doctrine of the human will. Aristotle was the first to formulate something anticipating what would later become a fully developed theory of the will. The discovery of human will is indeed a phenomenon of the recent past. And the debate about whether \"free will\" exists continues to this day, although an \"unfree will\" would be a contradiction in terms, as Hannah Arendt pointed out.\n\n\n\nThe \"recent past\" includes philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, who linked the absolute value of the human being to the autonomy of the will. The world is essentially mine, Hegel wrote, when I hav<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The will is a very mysterious human faculty. Three thousand years of history in philosophy and psychology show that it was an unknown phenomenon for a long time. Even at the height of Greek culture, there was no doctrine of the human will. Aristotle was the first to formulate something anticipating what would later become a fully developed theory of the will. The discovery of human will is indeed a phenomenon of the recent past. And the debate about whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9186,"featured_media":51854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8780,11354],"tags":[11402,8814],"class_list":["post-52200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-weltkonferenz-en","tag-2023-48-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}